23/04/2025
Sometimes, even when we're doing all the "right" things to support our mental health—going to therapy, exercising, meditating, journaling—we still don’t feel better, and that can be incredibly frustrating. We start turning that frustration inward, feeling like we’re broken or doing something wrong, or we lash out at the world for not cooperating. But it’s often that very resistance—the self-criticism, the impatience, the belief that we *should* feel better by now—that keeps us stuck. True progress often begins not with more effort, but with acceptance: meeting ourselves where we are, without judgment. It’s in allowing the struggle to exist, rather than fighting it, that we begin to loosen its grip. These things take time and don’t go in a straight line upwards!
Here are some distress tolerance techniques that may help in those really tough moments!
